# US 9,750,987 B2 · Support for balls and a bicycle provided with the support for balls > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,750,987 B2 - Document ID: US9750987B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/815,311 - Filed: 2015-07-31 - Published: 2016-02-04 - Granted: 2017-09-05 - Earliest claimed: 2014-08-01 - Applicants: Massimiliano Battigello - Inventors: Massimiliano Battigello - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9750987B2 ## CPC - B62J 11/05: for sport articles, e.g. balls or golf clubs - A63B 47/00: Devices for handling or treating balls {, e.g. for holding or carrying balls} - A63B 71/0036: {Accessories for stowing, putting away or transporting exercise apparatus or sports equipment (A63B47/00, A63B55/00, A63B60/56 take precedence)} - B62J 7/04: arranged above or behind the rear wheel - F16B 2/22: of resilient material, e.g. rubbery material {(F16B2/205 takes precedence)} - H01J 9/003: {Auxiliary devices for installing or removing discharge tubes or lamps} - H01K 3/32: Auxiliary devices for cleaning, placing, or removing incandescent lamps - B62J: CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS - A63B: APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H) - F16B: DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D) - H01J: ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS (spark-gaps H01T; electric arc lamps H05B31/00; particle accelerators H05H) - H01K: ELECTRIC INCANDESCENT LAMPS (details, apparatus or processes for manufacture applicable to both discharge devices and incandescent lamps H01J; light sources using a combination of incandescent and other types of light generation H01J61/96, H05B35/00) ## Abstract A support for balls (2) includes a receiving element (21) provided with a plurality of gripping resilient and arched members (210) adapted to define a gripping volume (211) of a ball. Each gripping member (210) has an end (214) constrained in a joining body (212) and a free end (215), a coupling body (22) adapted to constrain the receiving element (21) to a tubular support structure (100), wherein the coupling body (22) is constrained to the receiving element (21) by a longitudinal spacer element (23), whose first end (2309 is constrained to the coupling body (22) and a second end (231) is constrained to the receiving element (21). ## Claims ### Claim 1 A support for balls (2) comprising: a receiving element (21) provided with a plurality of resilient and arched gripping members (210) adapted to define a volume (211) for gripping a ball, wherein each gripping member (210) has an end (214) constrained in a joining body (212) and a free end (215), a coupling body (22) adapted to constrain the receiving element (21) to a tubular support structure (100), wherein the coupling body (22) is constrained to the receiving element (21) by means of a longitudinal spacer element (23), whose first end (230) is constrained to the coupling body (22) and a second end (231) is constrained to the receiving element (21), wherein the gripping members (210) are removably associated to the joining body (212), and wherein the joining body (212) comprises a plurality of seats uniformly and circumferentially distributed at the perimeter edge thereof, wherein each seat is adapted to house and hold a stem with a shape matching a shape of the seat associated to the constrained end (214) of each gripping member (210) and wherein each seat is closed by a closing plate (2123) removably fixed to the joining body (212) by a fastener. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The support (2) according to claim 1, wherein the gripping members (210) are mobile in opposition to an elastic thrust force from a mutually approached position to a diverged position. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The support (2) according to claim 1, wherein the free ends (215) of the gripping members (210) are mutually joined by at least one elastic annular body (216). ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The support according to claim 1, wherein the spacer element (23) has a curvilinear longitudinal axis. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The support (2) according to claim 1, wherein the coupling body (22) is adapted to removably constrain the receiving element (21) to the tubular support structure (100). ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The support (2) according to claim 5, wherein the coupling body (22) comprises a clamp element adapted to clutch the tubular support structure (100). ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A bicycle (1) comprising a bearing frame (10) provided with a tubular support structure (100), and comprising a support for balls (2) according to claim 1, wherein the coupling body (22) is adapted to constrain the receiving element (21) to the tubular support structure (100) by means of the longitudinal spacer element (23). ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The bicycle (1) according to claim 7, further comprising at least one pair of wheels (110,111), whose one front wheel (110) and one rear wheel (111), rotatably associated to the framework (10), wherein the support for balls (2) is adapted to be constrained to the tubular support structure (100) substantially superimposed, in plan view, to the rear wheel (111). ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The bicycle (1) according to claim 7, wherein the support for balls is constrained to a vertical tubular element (102) of the bicycle (1) or to a support stem (141) of a saddle (14).